Calcutta Diary

A nation, a substantial section of whom holds in great deference Puranic tracts, will be easily enchanted with mythology, any mythology, even that of a small-time defence bureaucrat suddenly catapulting to the status of a saint with the beatific smile. It does not matter if we have zeroed in on a Don Quixote or a Sancho Panza; he is the National Consensus, spelled in capital letters.